Oversight of Connecticut’s marijuana industry is shifting from the state’s Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) to a newly created regulatory office within the agency.
The move comes only weeks after DCP officials apologized for what was perceived to be a “retaliation” inspection at a cannabis cultivation facility, according to The Connecticut Mirror.
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The DCP has been planning to relieve the state’s Drug Control Division of the “licensing, regulatory and inspection functions” of the marijuana industry but sped up the process after the inspection, the Mirror reported.
The DCP notified licensed medical and adult-use cannabis operators in the state via email about the new regulatory office, which will be led by Lila McKinley, a lawyer in the agency, the Mirror reported.
DCP Commissioner Bryan
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